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Another day, another Empire actor arrested in Chicago.
Bryshere Yazuan Gray aka Yazz the Greatest aka Hakeem Lyon posed for the mugshot above after being arrested in Chicago.
Gray, best known for his role as Jussie Smollett’s little brother on “Empire” was busted for several traffic offenses after being pulled over in his Rolls-Royce.
Empire co-creator and executive producer Lee Daniels is finally speaking out about his feelings regarding the Jussie Smollett “hate crime” scandal.
As you know, Smollett alleged he’d been the victim of a hate crime, a claim Chicago cops later refuted, accusing the “Empire” actor of staging the entire episode to get a pay raise and to drum up publicity for his career.
While Smollett has maintained his innocence and strongly denied the accusations, Daniels says he feels some kinda way about jumping on the Smollett bandwagon so quickly.
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NEWSFLASH!!! FOX network has cancelled STAR and attempts to find another network home for the show have failed.
Lee Daniels recently hit the net to proclaim that all was not lost after Fox announced the season would be ending after its third season. In fact, he had high hopes that there would be another network interested in his creation.
Welp… it seems Daniels has thrown up the flag and he’s announced that it’s a wrap for the show.
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It was previously rumored that Smollett had orchestrated his own attack because his character was being written out of the show, however Empire writer’s disputed the chatter.
After Chicago PD “changed the trajectory” of their investigation, it seems that the writers of EMPIRE did the same with their story line.
Uh oh Jussie… you in danger girl!
The past few days has been quite an eye-opener for people who jumped on the Jussie Smollett bandwagon.
The popular EMPIRE actor, who claimed to have been assaulted by two Caucasian Donald Trump supporters two weeks ago, hit up Robin Roberts to tell his story on Good Morning America (click HERE if you missed that). And not soon afterwards, his story started to crumble.
Jussie has reportedly hired a well known defense attorney and several news outlets are reporting that he PAID two men to attack him.
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NEWSFLASH!! Lee Daniels can rest a bit easier now that he’s paid up his debt to Damon “Dame” Dash.
If you recall, the movie director was SHOOK when the hip-hop mogul pulled up on him at at Diana Ross concert and confronted him about a $2 million investment Dame made into Lee Daniels budding career back in 2004.
[READ: On Blast! Dame Dash Publicly Confronts Lee Daniels Over $2 Million Dollar Loan… (VIDEO)]
Daniels has apparently paid up so Dash has dropped his $5 million dollar lawsuit.
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